Hugh Brewster
Canadian author of children's non-fiction, known for books about maritime history (including the Titanic) and other historical topics for young readers.
Books
This list of books are ONLY the books that have been ranked on the lists that are aggregated on this site. This is not a comprehensive list of all books by this author.
-
1. Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage
The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
A vivid social history that profiles the wealthy first-class passengers aboard the RMS Titanic, tracing their privileged lives, ambitions and social networks before following the ship’s sinking and the choices that revealed character under duress; using archival photographs and biographical sketches, it contrasts gilded-age opulence with sudden catastrophe and explores themes of class, courage and loss through the stories of figures such as John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim, Isidor and Ida Straus, and Margaret “Molly” Brown.
Purchase from Bookshop.org